Life
Let's see if I understand how the world works lately...
If a man cuts his finger off while slicing salami at work, he blames the restaurant.
If you smoke three packs a day for 40 years and die of lung cancer, your family blames the tobacco company.
If your neighbor crashes into a tree while driving home drunk, he blames the bartender.
If your grandchildren are brats without manners, you blame television.
If your friend is shot by a deranged madman, you blame the gun manufacturer.
And if a crazed person breaks into the cockpit and tries to kill the pilot at 35,000 feet, and the passengers kill him instead, the mother of the deceased blames the airline.
I must have lived too long to understand the world as it is anymore. So, if I die while my old, wrinkled butt is parked in front of this computer, I want you to blame Bill Gates...okay?
If a man cuts his finger off while slicing salami at work, he blames the restaurant.
If you smoke three packs a day for 40 years and die of lung cancer, your family blames the tobacco company.
If your neighbor crashes into a tree while driving home drunk, he blames the bartender.
If your grandchildren are brats without manners, you blame television.
If your friend is shot by a deranged madman, you blame the gun manufacturer.
And if a crazed person breaks into the cockpit and tries to kill the pilot at 35,000 feet, and the passengers kill him instead, the mother of the deceased blames the airline.
I must have lived too long to understand the world as it is anymore. So, if I die while my old, wrinkled butt is parked in front of this computer, I want you to blame Bill Gates...okay?
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Enjoy this my friends, make the good times last, cuz in this lifetime they come and go to fast.
That is all.0 -
Is a person's life defined by one's failures and mistakes or achievements?
Is a person's successes built on a foundation of failures?
Can a person really achieve anything without taking risk?
I suspect most people over estimate the risk and underestimate the reward.0 -
Life is a real bitch (I hope we can still use that). I have been sitting around this afternoon thinking and drinking. I work 6 days a week 10+ hours a day for what. I have my toys that i love. A new house,guns, harley, truck, jeep and what ever else i seem to want. but all i really want is to move me and my lovely wife home and enjoy my Family while their still around. I could live in a tent drive a pinto and work for 5 dollars an hour and be more happy. We have a family cabin that growing up i spent half my life there now i make it the 1-2 times a year. And for what. I think that I have let worldly thing get in the way of what is important to ME. 0 -
RULES OF LIFE...
I find the last one to be all too true!
*If you're too open-minded, your brains will fall out.
*Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
*Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
*Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
*My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
*It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
*If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.
*Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.
*No husband has ever been shot while doing the dishes.
*A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
*Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
*Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
*Junk is something you've kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it.
*Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
*By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.
*Thou shalt not weigh more than thy refrigerator.
*Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world.
*Life is like a roll of toilet tissue - the closer it gets to the end the faster it goes.
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Life is NOT like a box of chocolates.
Life is like a jar of jalapeneos.
What you do today
May burn your a** tomorrow
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quote:Captplaid:
Is a person's life defined by one's failures and mistakes or achievements?
Is a person's successes built on a foundation of failures?
Can a person really achieve anything without taking risk?
I suspect most people over estimate the risk and underestimate the reward.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
Most of your family and friends grow to expect it - only your closest friends know
the truth about success and failure. Once mastered it becomes the natural way of a
experienced life.
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quote:Originally posted by Captplaid
Is a person's life defined by one's failures and mistakes or achievements?
Both, depending on a lot of variables.
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Is a person's successes built on a foundation of failures?
Yes. Can't think of any exceptions.
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Can a person really achieve anything without taking risk?
Yes. Depending on how you rate an achievement: build a house, plant a tree and raise a son or make a gizzilion dollars. I, personally, think my friends who aren't wealthy but have a solid family achieved a lot more in life than people like, say, Donald Trump.
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I suspect most people over estimate the risk and underestimate the reward.
Yes, in most cases. It's obvious.
Add: what's with "the meaning of life" talk in the middle of the night?0 -
quote:Originally posted by Captplaid
Is a person's life defined by one's failures and mistakes or achievements?
Depends which one accomplishes more. For good or ill, mind you. For example, Hitler's failures as a human being far outweigh his accomplishments as a painter.
quote:Is a person's successes built on a foundation of failures?Not necessarily - Alexander the Great, for example, never lost a battle.
quote:Can a person really achieve anything without taking risk? Yes. Risk implies uncertainty and leaving a portion of your plan to chance or "fate." Sound planning and in-depth research into all factors involved can reduce or eliminate the element of risk.
quote:I suspect most people over estimate the risk and underestimate the reward.Well, as Iraq has amply illustrated, it's certainly less injurious than vice versa.0 -
quote:Originally posted by zipperzap
quote:Captplaid:
Is a person's life defined by one's failures and mistakes or achievements?
Is a person's successes built on a foundation of failures?
Can a person really achieve anything without taking risk?
I suspect most people over estimate the risk and underestimate the reward.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
Most of your family and friends grow to expect it - only your closest friends know
the truth about success and failure. Once mastered it becomes the natural way of a
experienced life.
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Naaaaa once I'm successfull enough to buy a couple hundred acres out in the mountains and maintain and keep it I'd be done. Sit there and watch the world go by at that point.0 -
EMM, those are great points, except that they are all exceptions to the general rule, I think. Still great way to convince someone that most truths aren't true [:D] 0 -
sneaky,
But ain't it always the exceptions that screw us up?[;)][:D]0 -
EMM: depends on your general outlook on life. I can only make judgments and conclusions based on my and general experience which isn't based on exceptions. So far it worked well. Actually, very well. 0 -
sneaky,
Hey, if it works, you're doin' something right that 99% of the world seems to be doin' wrong.[:D][8D]0 -
quote:Originally posted by ElMuertoMonkey
sneaky,
Hey, if it works, you're doin' something right that 99% of the world seems to be doin' wrong.[:D][8D]
Something like that. I am not sure if the number 99% is accurate, I simply do not have access to such stats, but generally, yes, I am doing a lot better than most people. Why?0 -
Pass it over here, man.
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